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-EDIT- Apparently I forgot to draw Todd’s rash. Not the first time that’s happened either. XD

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to visit a classroom in my town after the teacher saw the article about me in the newspaper. I just realized over the weekend that I never got around to mentioning the visit on the site. >_< Sorry, everyone! I feel bad for not mentioning it sooner.
Here is a link to the class webpage, with a link to a write up bout my visit and some photos from the day. 😀

I think that her tears are for the fact that although Heather is in trouble, she still has a mom who cared enough for her to come talk to her. And Selkie has a dad who cares enough to cut a workday short (Amanda wouldn’t know he wasn’t actually working) to come to her aid. Whether that will make her any more tolerable is another thing altogether.

Heck, my uncle was a freelancer computer safety programmer half his work career. He often worked from his home office. My dad (college/uni level teacher and later deeply involved in a special inter-university Master’s program) works 2 days per week from home, because the Internet era makes it possible.

I DO NOT assume you’re “not really working” if you’re not at the office/building site/driving a bus/serving customers/whathaveyou, I was merely referring to the fact that he was having it out with an ex when the phonecall came, and Amanda – or anyone else present in this instance – couldn’t have known that, but would assume he came directly from work, wherever that might be.

I think I won’t quite yet be getting my wish that Amanda will realize the consequences of her jealousy. I do hope she feels just a teensy bit bad over this. But yeah, that was definitely a *sniff sniff I don’t have parents* cry there. :/

Yea…I always assumed the pink and purple was because your main character is a young girl, and therefore pink and purple are young girly colors…unless you were me,I loved blue and would trade my brother all the red toys i got for his blue ones.

Hehehe, blue is my favourite colour too. When I moved to this apartment, I made a deal with the landlord that he’d let me skip first month’s rent if we painted the ceiling (odd stains in white paint) and re-did the wallpapers, which were coming apart. (Wallpapers were interesting, apparently they’d just been put on top of old ones time and after again, we peeled off 7 layers.)

Now the walls are light blue, the ceiling is light blue, and my curtains (small apartment, very large window) are green-white-blue. ^_^

That’s classic “Dad, I want to get out of here” pulling, while Todd is doing the “I’m sorry, but we’re not moving yet” anchor plant. Observable wherever excited children and less excited adults congregate.

Don’t know why people are saying a bit of crying will change anything. She cried and yelled and acted like this before. It made her more bitter and nasty. The only way she is going to improve is if she is adopted and they get her into a better environment, counselling maybe (but that is often over rated).

Amanda is a bitter child in a somewhat pitiful situation. Many bullies are, but bottom line is she is a bully and is using her “power” to hurt others to make herself feel better in some fleeting way. It is a horrible thing and she may even grow to regret it and leave it all behind one day. But right now, she is a very nasty and hatful person. Her age makes it more sympathetic but it’s the same kind of mind set that teenage bullies have, and they drive people to suicided is some cases.

I have seen it happen in real life and it’s the same thing from age 8 to age 18.

Bullying doesn’t stop at 18. I’ve been bullied in college for multiple reasons (I’m vegan, weird, a nerd, have overactive bladder and thus frequently run to the restroom, I actively participate in community service, I work with special needs… I’ve been bullied for all of these in the last year and I’m 22). I’ve been bullied by full grown adults who call themselves “family” because I’m vegan.

And it’s not just me. A coworker at my fiance’s work recently bullied him because he has a plush AT-AT on his desk. And another one of my friends who is 24 is bullied at work for being gay.

I also work with a young adult with special needs. I have seen COMPLETE STRANGERS of all ages try to bully her before I step up and tell them that it is not acceptable.

We’ve seen tears from Amanda before. I unlike some people do NOT suddenly feel sorry for her. She’s done SO many nasty things and if we’ve learned anything, she is going to just keep doing as she does.

I honestly don’t know how I feel about Amanda anymore. I’m not exactly in-between feeling bad of her and not feeling bad for her, it’s just that when it comes to bullies I’m always so biased… especially elementary school was the worst when it came to bullies.

She was five when she was left, so I’m supposing it is her real name. Although, if her mother had any type of accent, it might not be her “real” name, but be the closest anyone there could come to pronouncing it.

Yes, I’m sorry but I agree with the unsympathetic. Amanda’s tears are from petty jealousy, and not enough to erase the negativity and cruelty that she created. The reason she’s not adopted is because any sweetness is phony, and she has a horrible personality and total lack of empathy. She IS a bully, and has done nothing to redeem herself or shown any growth or that she learned a lesson.

On another note, maybe we can show Todd applying some ointment soon to help him heal more quickly, maybe drawing a Band-Aid would be easier to remember. Aside from that we need to come up with some sort of solution to his allergic reaction to Selkie. Even though they could hug I’m sure she’d feel bad knowing that her kisses harm her “father”. Maybe we could find out that his reaction is due to something else, like a combination of something Selkie ate or that her kiss exacerbated some other problem he had unrelated to Selkie.

I still don’t like Amanda. Her situation makes me feel a little bad for her, but the way she’s acting out to get attention isn’t going to fix anything. Sure she’s just a kid, but a few tears don’t fix what she’s doing to the people around her. I hope at some point she learns to not be a bully and she can make up with Selkie when she’s more mature.

So, discovered this yesterday, have read all the way through it twice now. One of the big things about Amanda is… I wonder how she became an orphan. If you recall, Wu was shocked Selkie had been there 3 years, though Georgie was not so much.